Cutting textiles' pollution in China; Suing FDA for BPA inaction; Cleaning up Superfund sites; Shutting down sewage plant in NY; Health sequences in the Gulf...

In a piece on NRDC’s “Clean by Design” project published in Women’s Wear Daily, Linda Greer described NRDC’s efforts to reduce the environmental impact of China’s growing textile sector and NRDC’s recent work with factories to develop eco-friendly and cost-reducing policies…  In an article that appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle today, Sarah Janssen commented on NRDC’s decision to sue FDA over its failure to regulate BPA, a chemical linked to cancer and a slew of other health-related problems. Janssen again was quoted, this time along with Aaron Colangelo, in another article on the lawsuit in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; several other outlets also reported on the story including  Good Magazine and Treehugger…

In an piece Associated Press article, Larry Levine expressed NRDC’s support for a federal appeals court decision upholding EPA’s authority to order the cleanup of Superfund sites… E&E Daily’s article on federal efforts to deal with the white bark pine beetle epidemic in Western forests featured commentary by Niel Lawrence on a new bill to address the issue… NRDC’s legal victory in the South Bronx was mentioned in a NY Daily News article on the closing of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company, a facility which has polluted the air of the Hunts Point neighborhood with the foul smell of sewage for decades … Gina Solomon described the health consequences of the Gulf oil spill in an Empowher blog post…